Hace poco encontré una caja de fichas de dominó muy antiguas y conseguí hacer unos parecidos, una edición muy limitada próximamente disponible en la tienda on line.Not long ago I found a box of very old dominoes and I managed to do a very similar ones, a limited edition which will be soon available in the online shop.

“In the Province of Tsu lived a boy who was very anxious to distinguish himself in his examinations, and thus bring honor to his parents. But he found that after he had been studying for some hours he began to get very drowsy, and his head would nod till he fell fast asleep. This distressed him very much. At last he tied a cord to the end of his pigtail and fastened this to a beam in the roof, so that when his head began to nod the pull of the pigtail roused him.”

Lucie Rie was an outstanding Viennese ceramicist. At that time I was fascinated with her work (I am even more now) and after unsuccessfully seeking for a name to tag my first creations I decided to use hers. Now I'm a little embarrassed, but it’s already said. In my defence I must declare that we have a similar name, that I used it just for a while and that there were certain similarities between her handwriting and mine. Whatever.

The thing is that as a brand it did not get very far, only a few silkscreen printing bags. Ham-tongued Dog, that was the title. My sister (I will write about her soon) said that memorable phrase when she was a child. I still believe that she was absolutely right, maybe that's why it gives me the creeps when dogs lick me.

Then Odile appeared, a Japanese girl who owned a extremely nice chihuahua. When it rains she puts him a pig suit. He probably doesn’t like it because he always keeps staring at you as if he was asking for an explanation or for some mercy. Poor Ricardito.

Odile is a great, funny and a slightly mad girl. She was doing an internship in Lydia Delgado. We quickly became very good friends and planned that we would do an accessories brand together. We only decided the name and then she had to move to another city, so I had to get down to work on my own. Thus Après Ski was born.

Éste fue de mis primeros colgantes, un galgo corriendo mucho. Todo esto me hace pensar que hay algo que parece mentira.This is one of my first pendants, a a very fast running greyhound. There’s something in all this that looks like fake.